Beam-supporter.



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(No Model.)

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LOUIS BERRY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BEAM-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 661.946. dated November 29, 1900.

Application filed March '7, 1900. Seria-lNo. 7,677. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS BERRY, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of No. 230 East 'lwenty-sixth street, New York, Manhattan borough, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beam-Supporters, which improvements are fully set forth in the following specification and accom panyiug drawings, and in the latter-- Figure 1 is an elevation view, partly in section, showing a segment of a brick wall, my improved beam-supporter built therein, and a portion of a beam or sleeper resting at one end thereof upon said improved supporter. Fig. 2 is an end view of the beam and supporter in the same relative positions as shown in Fig. 1, the brick wall being removed. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the objects seen in Fig. 1. This view further shows the disposition of my improved supporter with respect to a chimney-flue which may be formed in the wall. Fig. 4 is a plan view of my improved Fig. 5 is a cross-section as on the line 00 00, Fig. 4.

Similar reference numerals denote like parts throughout the several views.

This invention relates to improvements in devices of that class commonly known as beam-supporters; and its object is to provide a beam-supporter which shall be simple and cheap as regards construction and which shall efficiently serve the purpose of supporting beams, sleepers, and the like when the latter are utilized in connection with masonry, as the brick, stone, and analogous walls of buildings and like walls for all other purposes in connection with which beams, sleepers, and the like are used.

The invention consists in the adoption of a novel form for a beam-supporter, in the novel adaptation of said beam-supporter to the purposes for which it is designed, in certain combinations, and in certain details of construction, all of which will be specifically referred to hereinafter.

Having reference to the accompanying drawings, 2 denotes a segment of masonry,

said cross-piece with the respective arms.

Further, it is provided by preference with a vertical lip or flange 7, and, still further, this flange by preference extends continuously along the inner edge of the members 5 5 6 of the supporter, thus giving to a cross-sectional View of the supporter an angular form, substantially as seen in Fig. 5, as well as materially increasing the strength of the supporter without materially increasing its weight. It is obvious that the flange or lip 7 may extendalong the outer edge of the respective members of the supporter.

In practice where the supporter is provided with a vertical flange, as 7, the beam, sleeper, or the like intended for use in connection with said supporter is provided with a transverse recess in its under side suitable'in form to receive a portion of the supporter in such manner that the under surface of the supporter will be flush with the under surface of the beam or sleeper, as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

This device is peculiarly advantageous in that as it is built into the masonry while the latter is being constructed no delay in the construction of such masonry need arise through non-delivery of the beams or sleepers, the common practice of avoiding the placing of a beam or sleeper in alinement with a chimney-flue, as 8, need not be observed, a decayed or otherwise defective beam or sleeper may be readily replaced with a sound one; no special knowledge or skill is required in locating my improved. supporter with respect to a building-wall or other masonry, in the event of fire beams or sleepers upon being burned in two may fall from their original positions without taking with them any portion of the masonry, and in that the device gives a peculiar stability to the structures in connection with which it is used.

It Will further be seen that my improved beam-supporter may be altered or modified to some extent, parlicularly in the matters of form and details of construction, without materially departing from the spirit and principle of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A supporter for beams or the like consisting of substantially parallel arms, an integrant connecting piece for joining said arms, and an integrant, continuous rib at one side of said arms and connecting-piece, the latter being formed from a strip of material of a contour in cross-section suitable to provide a seat at the connecting-piece for a beam or the like, and to admit of a portion of said arms being built into masonry, as herein specified.

2. In combination with masonry, a beamsupporter and a beam or sleeper, the said supporter consisting of substantially parallel arms, an integrant connecting-piece for joining said arms, and an integrant, continuous rib at one side of said arms and connectingpiece, the latter being formed from a strip of material of a con tour in cross-section suitable to provide a seat at the connecting-piece for a beam, and to admit of a portion of said arms being built into said masonry, all substantially as herein described.

3. The combination with masonry of a substantially U shaped beam-supporter, angular in cross-section, and a beam or sleeper, the latter having, a recess adapted to receive a portion of said supporter, as herein specified.

LOUIS BERRY.

Witnesses:

W. H. RUBY, ALBERT (J. 'IANNER. 

